If this Congress has its lowest approval rating in the history of the poll, then it is the worst. If you preside over the worst, you just may be the worst of the worst–or at worst–responsible for the worst.

Now, I’m off to have some bratwurst to honor the worst.

On July 17th, 2008 at 1:22 pm, DanMan said:

I have a question for the vast audience here. Our local rag (Houston Comical) has a blog feature as I’m sure most papers do. Are your boards as regulated against conservative voices as our is? Of course the journalism and editorials are unabashedly left, but they make it look like it is a majority of KosKids only that bother to participate.

I was permanently banned when I pointed out Obama was apparently left of NARAL on the partial birth abortion issue vis a vis his vote and statements as an Illinois legislator. Moderator told me the subject offended the bloggers.

Wow! I don’t think even the Springfield (MA)Republican (in name only) would do that! (but I wouldn’t be surprised if they did).

I think that their censorship is offensive! I guess it is mob rule on that board, and they lefties just complain until you are blocked.

Kinda makes you think of what the “Fairness” Doctrine would do for free speech.

On July 16th, 2008 at 5:02 pm, TheOtherSide said:

On July 16th, 2008 at 4:50 pm, RedDog said:

I am sick of these politically motivated “statistics” that, frankly, make no sense.

If they are “politically motivated” statistics, then your ire should be aimed at the Bush administration and not the liberals.

Perhaps so, but it is the Democrats that are erroneously acting on it. If they hadn’t voted against drilling for the same time related reasons back in ‘96, we would be enjoying the fruits of those labors today.

The fact is market prices are already responding to the President simply rescinding the Exectutive drilling ban.

Or it could be due to the fact that “Crude-oil and gasoline inventories rose last week, according to government data released Wednesday. Both gains defied analysts’ expectations.” (source)

So then, by your argument’s logic, increasing petroleum based inventories (supply) will lower prices. So why is it that adding to the supply via drilling will “do nothing to lower prices?”

The bottom line: the Dems do not want anything to make make Bush look good (i.e. help the country) before the election. They are effectively screwing the country, particularly the poor, for the sake of preserving or expanding their own power.

Even more pathetic, the polls show that their selfish ploy is obvious to the country, who sees that their obstructionism is detrimental to the country, and they either don’t care, or are too suffused with their power to gove a flying fig.

I was permanently banned when I pointed out Obama was apparently left of NARAL on the partial birth abortion issue vis a vis his vote and statements as an Illinois legislator. Moderator told me the subject offended the bloggers.

They don’t want drilling. They don’t want more oil. They want humans to ride bicycles and then to die. We deserve it: We were mean to the polar bears.

It’s good to know that in the middle of a crisis, the Democrats are still liars. As long as we’re fantasizing about “alternative” energy sources, what we really need is a car that runs on Democrats’ lies.

Speculators buy up large amounts of oil and then sell it to each other again and again.

…oil speculators purchase 66 percent of all oil futures contracts

Speculators speculate on the future price of oil. They participate in the market to make money by absorbing risk. They are betting that nothing will change!

If you make legislative changes that open up drilling (continental shelf, ANWR, coasts, shale, coal…) and/or removes the red tape associated with drilling, that will change the expected future price of oil… and will reduce speculation.

Transportation companies and airlines turn to speculators as a way of getting a stable, expected fuel cost so that they can budget accurately for it. They purchase fuel at a future expected price through a speculator, who absorbs the risk.

If you want to remove excessive speculation against the future price of oil, then lower the expected future price of oil!

They don’t even attempt to hide the fact that they are pushing their own agenda. The don’t represent the people that elected them. They represent the extremist organizations that fund them.

San Fran Nancy and Cowardly Harry are absolutely worthless and a disgrace to elected officials everywhere, which is saying a lot.

Well…I gotta admit one thing though…the Democrats in Congress did promise a change in the way things were handled in Congress…and BOY did they ever change things.

Since they took office the mortgage scandals broke loose, people are being evicted from their homes and foreclosures are at all time highs all across the spectrum, banks are failing, unemplayment is rising, gas prices and the price of a barrel of oil has gone through the roof…and they have scored the lowest approval rating of any Congress EVER. Oh yeah…they have DEFINATELY brough about a change.

However, as “The Other Side” demonstrated, there is one thing that they have NOT changed. That is the ability to still blame President Bush for everything.

I predict even lower approval ratings between now and November. As the Liberals in Congress continue to play their fiddles, things keep dropping. The Republicans have taken up the cry of the people of this country, and it will not go without notice come election day.

This may turn out to be an election day that will truly go down in history. It will see the turn around of the congress after only one election cycle, as well as possibly losing the Presidency that was a shoe-in for a Democrat only 12 short months ago.

Good job Libbies. This is the kind of change Ican live with. The kind of change that exposes you for everything you are. How’s that support from those Kos Kids working out for ya?